Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] the real " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Slavery was not the real cause [ of the Civil War ] . |
| 2 | Technically , fuel is not the real problem ; economies and politics are the problems . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Mr Heseltine is arguing inflation is still the real danger — and warning more spending power in the economy could just suck in imports as in the past . |
| 4 | For the first time she realised that Deana Davenport 's jealous bitterness was n't the real danger . |
| 5 | This was due to two reasons : large group sizes make it very difficult , ‘ you ca n't organize 30 kids to do clay very easily ’ ; that the type of training of the staff was all very similar , but that training was not the real problem , it was group sizes and lack of resources . |
| 6 | Hugh X de Lusignan , count of La Marche , had led the French campaigns against Aquitaine in 1224–5 but in 1241–2 , influenced by his wife , Isabella of Angoulême , played turncoat and defied Louis IX.22 Louis 's successful Taillebourg expedition of that year was perhaps the real turning-point in Capetian-Plantagenet rivalry . |
| 7 | This might suggest that the so-called imaginary time is really the real time , and that what we call real time is just a figment of our imaginations . |
| 8 | For a biographer , meeting the family is where the real process of empathy begins , says Forster : ‘ You see the facial characteristics , the old vibes do start churning in a different way . |